metadigital

Go ahead and complain, it's good therapy. I would agree with the tall white fluffy invisible Oryctolagus Cuniculus, though, and read some game magazines for official reviews and player testimonials, if not forums like this one. Still, this will serve as a learning experience, should you let it. I just played Deus Ex again, and -- as limited as the scope of the three endings were in terms of the length of entire narrative -- the multiple endings gave a fabulous sense of closure with completely different philosophical ramifications to ponder as the credits role.

Ahh, hoods are for wimps. I would have liked to see a cool set of shades.

Perfect microcosm of K2. Missed opportunity, pointlessly shallow and buggy implementation and wasted effort.

Maybe he was in hiding. If he was trying to hide his racial background he should have done something about those pointy things on his head, e.g. file 'em down like Hellboy did.

It seems we need more Jedi classes as well The Ithorian should have his own class <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The whole corner that LA have painted themselves into with KotOR is that Jedi are just Paladins. There is no conceptual room for them to be Clerics or Magic Users -- they're just too limited in scope (and way too powerful); an Ithorian with unusually high Force-sensitivity could be a Druid, certainly. (Yoda is meant to be a freak of nature, isn't he? His race are mostly not even able to talk, I thought.) Certainly having characters that resembled other sorts woul only be good. It would be interesting to try to play through a KotOR as a soldier, for example.

Did you play Half-Life? A lot of the sequel is playing on the in-joke that Gordon doesn't talk and everyone looks to him for answers, when you are just as clueless (and moreso, in fact) than everyone else. It's funny you thought Half-Life 2 had little story, yet you have defended KotOR2 until your fingers bled over your keyboard... "

And the answer is... both of you are correct! Actually, I think a better way to say this is that their rendering engines are 100% 3D. They look 3D because their graphical representation is true 3D. However, portions of their internal game logic operate only in 2D. Hence the term 2.5D. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> holographic video devices, anyone?

the horns were probably a give-away "

Maybe its not made up ...

maybe their reed-pen broke when they were writing the middle digit "

I'm betting it is :cool: (w00t) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would just like to blow my own trumpet and say that I was 100% correct. (w00t) The last episode of Doctor Who aired on Saturday (ominously called "DALEK") I can't wait for the episodes coming up in a couple of weeks, where more Daleks are scheduled to appear. (w00t)

After the recent disapointment of K2 I wouldn't even consider the concept crossing my mind in anticipation of pre-empting the thought of purchasing a LA game until a month after the release, so I can read the feedback in Gamer mags and online to ascertain just how much worse it is than than I expect it to be ...

manipulates those around her; betraying them as and when it suits her acording to her agenda. Malak was not subtle, he just burnt Revan as all Sith do their masters as part of their normal rite of passage (or die trying). She also betrayed Jedi and Sith before during and after the Mandalorian Wars, and she was herself betrayed (which seemed to be significant to the whole "Queen of Betrayal" growth) -- including Revan. Malak was just a garden variety psychopath.

Did you see, hear, touch, feel, or taste them? I'm very curious on this. It all sounds very naughty. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thats real hott :ph34r: can i watch? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is that Schrodinger's cat?

1. No known species of reindeer that can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer (which only Santa has ever seen.) 2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total-378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. 3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept),we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second-a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour. 4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload-not even counting the weight of the sleigh-to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison-this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth. 5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You're forgetting Santa's bag of holding ( ), the multi-dimensional wormhole that leads to his storehouse of toys. As for timing, all he needs to do is slow time's forward motion (because stopping it would seem to be impossible) enough so that it appears to be stopped.

This is terrific news. Invisible Stalkers -- Nice! Now if only psionics worked as in AD&D ...

I just replayed Deus Ex again, this week. Great game -- one of the best ever. I would regard it as an RPG, as you level up (in a basic way, skills are added based on "Skill Points" achieved for plot movement). It's a pity that Deus Ex: Invisible War didn't continue this ... it really is just a dumbed down FPS. (Though I have to admit it's not as bad as I first thought, though it is definitely not in the same league as the first.) Half-Life (the series) has to be it for me. That physics engine is radical.

Someone should do a KotOR 2 run-thru...

that link says polar bears live in Norway?? someone from Norway confirm this .. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not from Norway, but some corroborating evidence: Official-looking Polar Bear fact page

... but it would feel like forever as time would elongate to infinity for you as you approached the point of singularity.

Though they have hair but it's pretty much like a bald person's hair where there is no hair on the frontal part of the head and only probably at the sides and back <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well Rhino horns are a hardenned form of hair, so maybe that's what happenned to the Zabrak's hair: it evolved into horns. (You don't see any hirsuit rhinos, do you?)

Handmaiden all the way. I like a strong woman. The disciple was a great m

thanks for the link

... or the Lawnmower Man ... or the new being created at the end of Deus Ex, when JC Denton joins with Helios ("If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Voltaire). It is a toughie. Assuming the greater good of ephemerals (peoples of the Universe) and the greater good of The Force (i.e. godhead) are not mutually exclusive (a fair assumption), then it propably depends on individual priorities. What I mean is, if one wants ultimate freedom to determine one's destiny, then any interference, no matter how good (parentalism) is bad and should be struggled against (not sure how that fight could ever be won, though ... :D ) It becomes a moral comparitive choice (better or best versus less good or bad), rather than a clear-cut good-versus-evil one. I simply proposed that the Force could be a "selfish" entity, merely using the universe for its own ends because this would (using Occham's Razor) explain the Force and resolve pre-destination. Otherwise we have to explain why there is pre-destination and free choice. If free choice were merely an illusion to allow the Force to facilitate its own ends (ironically the Force then has free will and self-determination), then we can easily explain why we think we do. What would I prefer? Hmmm. I would probably side with the Humanists (see especially Renaissance Humanism): I suppose my sentimental favourite theory would be Force a small "f" force, where the inhabitants determine their own destiny. This means that it must be possible for good and evil to be expunged from the universe. The corollory would be that, should that ever happen: 1. that would be very unlikely; and 2. it does not preclude the rebirth of either; because, to seed, all Evil needs is envy, and all Good needs is hope. No comfort there for monotheists, I'm afraid. Except that (in a purely humanistic equation) religion does provide a very useful behavioural template for the growth of goodness.